Welcome to the Scholars' Forum

This section features complete papers, articles, and lectures on Hawthorne
and his world by Hawthorne scholars, college and university faculty, and graduate students.

Scroll down this page to see a list of all papers, articles, and lectures grouped by topic and author. You may click on a topic or author to see papers, articles, and/or lectures related to that topic.

Papers, articles, and lectures are also listed under the particular area, topic, and subtopic. After you click on an area (e.g., Literature), topic (e.g. The Custom House Sketch), and subtopic (e.g., Fact and Fantasy), click on "Scholars' Forum" in the Resources list and you can read papers, articles, and lectures related to that subtopic

To Use This Section

View a list of papers presented
at the Hawthorne Society Bicentennial Conference in Salem, MA in July, 2004

Special Features

In some cases lectures are available in audio as well as text format. If this
is the case, an audio icon will appear in the upper right-hand corner of the text-version of the lecture. Click on the icon to hear the audio.

To read biographical notes on the author, click on the picture (if included)
or on the name of the author.